Data Summary

The number of reported shootings that occurred in the United States in 2018 was 340. There were 373 lives lost from the 340 shootings in 2018. The city that was most impacted by shootings (impact is defined as the number of casualties, which is equal to the number of deaths plus the number of injuries) in 2018 was Chicago with 135 casualties. The total number of casualties from 2018 shootings was 1720. In addition to the above information, there were 196 cities that had recorded shootings in 2018. This summary was gathered from the original data source here.

Summary Table

Below displayed is a table, death count, that shows the date, state, city, and death count of the ten deadliest shootings, sorted by death count in descending order.

Date	State	City	Deaths
February 14, 2018	Florida	Pompano Beach (Parkland)	17
November 7, 2018	California	Thousand Oaks	13
October 27, 2018	Pennsylvania	Pittsburgh	11
May 18, 2018	Texas	Santa Fe	10
September 12, 2018	California	Bakersfield	6
October 15, 2018	Tennessee	Columbia	5
July 27, 2018	Texas	Robstown	5
July 9, 2018	Delaware	Wilmington	5
June 28, 2018	Maryland	Annapolis	5
June 11, 2018	Florida	Orlando	5

The ten deadliest shootings in 2018 included 82 deaths compared to the 373 total deaths from shootings in 2018. This means that 22 percent of all shooting fatalities in 2018 were from the ten deadliest incidents, even though these incidents only represent 3 percent of all the 2018 shootings.

Shooting in Bridgeport, CT

On February 27, 2018, there was a shooting in Bridgeport, Connecticut. The shooting occurred at 1306 Stratford Ave (latitude = 41.1792258, longitude = -73.1894384). Fortunately there were 0 people killed, but there were 4 people injured, bringing the total casualties to 4. This article describes the events of the shooting at certain times throughout the night.

Interactive Map of 2018 Shootings

This is a map that shows the locations of the 2018 US Shootings (the radius of the circle is proportional to the number of casualties) Clicking on a marker will provide the city, date, and casualties associated with the incident.

As shown from the map above, most of the shootings (that had casualties) in 2018 happened on the eastern half of the country. There are also several states that did not have reported shootings, such as Montana, Oregon, and Maine.

What states had the most casualties from shootings in 2018?

Below is a graph that illustrates the number of casualties per state for all 2018 shootings (not every state had shootings with casualties reported, so those are not listed).

This format of a bar graph is the most effective way to see the differences in casualties among states. It easy to see that the states with the most casualties were California, Florida and Illinois, which all had over 150 casualties. We can also see that all states except those three had casualties fewer than 100. Hovering over each bar provides the state and the casualties it had.